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Fencing

Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...

 events on the Fencing at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Fencing at the 1924 Summer Olympics

At the 1924 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested. A women's event, the individual foil, was held for the first time.After the Olympic Games, an Italian and a Hungarian settled a scoring controversy with a real duel...

programme. It was the seventh appearance of the event, the only fencing event to have been on the programme at every Games.

The competition was held from Tuesday July 16, 1924 to Thursday July 18, 1924. 47 fencers from 15 nations competed.

Quarterfinals

The top four fencers in each pool advanced. Bouts were to four touches. Bout record was the primary determiner of rank; ties were broken first by the number of times touched, then by touches scored, and then by a tiebreaker pool if the fencers were still tied.

Pool A

Rank	Fencer									Wins	Losses	Touches	Touched	Qual.
1		4	2	19	17	Q
2		4	2	19	18	Q
3		4	2	19	18	Q
4		3	3	19	14	Q
5		3	3	19	15
6		3	3	18	17
7		0	6	10	24

Pool B

Sola beat Kershaw 4–2 in the tiebreaker.

Rank	Fencer									Wins	Losses	Touches	Touched	Qual.
1		4	2	21	14	Q
2		4	2	20	16	Q
3		4	2	21	18	Q
4		3	3	18	19	Q
5		3	3	18	19
6		2	4	16	21
7		1	5	13	20

Pool C

Rank	Fencer									Wins	Losses	Touches	Touched	Qual.
1		6	0	24	11	Q
2		4	2	17	14	Q
3		3	3	15	15	Q
4		3	3	17	16	Q
5		3	3	21	17
6		2	4	16	20
7		0	6	7	24

Pool D

Rank	Fencer								Wins	Losses	Touches	Touched	Qual.
1		5	0	20	5	Q
2		4	1	19	13	Q
3		3	2	15	12	Q
4		2	3	10	15	Q
5		1	4	14	17
6		0	5	4	20

Pool E

Rank	Fencer										Wins	Losses	Touches	Touched	Qual.
1		6	1	26	14	Q
2		6	1	27	15	Q
3		6	1	25	17	Q
4		4	3	22	17	Q
5		3	4	19	20
6		1	6	14	25
7		1	6	15	26
8		1	6	12	26

Pool F

Rank	Fencer								Wins	Losses	Touches	Touched	Qual.
1		4	1	19	10	Q
2		3	2	18	11	Q
3		3	2	17	15	Q
4		2	3	12	16	Q
5		2	3	13	18
6		1	4	8	17

Pool G

Rank	Fencer								Wins	Losses	Touches	Touched	Qual.
1		4	1	19	10	Q
2		4	1	19	12	Q
3		3	2	16	16	Q
4		2	3	14	14	Q
5		2	3	13	16
6		0	5	7	20

Semifinals

The top four fencers in each pool advanced. Bouts were to four touches. Bout record was the primary determiner of rank; ties were broken first by the number of times touched, then by touches scored, and then by a tiebreaker pool if the fencers were still tied.

Pool A

Rank	Fencer												Wins	Losses	Touches	Touched	Qual.
1		7	1	31	15	Q
2		7	1	30	18	Q
3		6	2	29	21	Q
4		5	3	26	22	Q
5		4	4	25	22
6		3	5	23	25
7		2	6	15	27
8		2	6	16	28
9		0	8	15	32
–		Did not finish

Pool B

Rank	Fencer											Wins	Losses	Touches	Touched	Qual.
1		7	1	30	17	Q
2		6	2	29	17	Q
3		6	2	27	20	Q
4		5	3	28	16	Q
5		4	4	20	21
6		3	5	25	24
7		3	5	20	24
8		1	7	8	29
9		1	7	13	31

Pool C

Rank	Fencer											Wins	Losses	Touches	Touched	Qual.
1		7	1	30	15	Q
2		6	2	28	20	Q
3		5	3	26	17	Q
4		5	3	24	21	Q
5		4	4	27	22
6		4	4	19	24
7		2	6	21	27
8		2	6	17	27
9		1	7	12	31

Final

Rank	Fencer																		Tiebreak
		5	2	26	20	2	0	8	1
		5	2	22	18	1	1	4	7
		5	2	23	20	0	2	4	8
4		4	3	24	21	1	0	4	3
5		4	3	24	21	0	1	3	4
6		2	5	15	24	1	0	4	2
7		2	5	23	22	0	1	2	4
8		1	6	16	27	N/A
–		Disqualified				N/A
		Did not start				N/A
		Did not start				N/A
		Did not start				N/A